re: #118 JustABill

Most of that may be technically true, but it is irrelevant, for one reason: SUBMARINES.

Submarines are forgotton leg of the American tripod defense concept (land-air-sea). At any given time, we have subs with ICBMS cruising the world’s oceans, and there’s NO way to take them out. So even if Russia in some crazy scenario launched 1,000 missiles at the US and “took out” the whole country, they’d STILL get a massive retaliation coming from our submarine fleet. No, the counterstrike wouldn’t be as massive, but believe me it would be bad enough to have made the original strike “not worth it.”